From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "John W. Linville" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Marvell Libertas 8388 802.11b/g USB driver (v2) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 03:22:50 -0500 Message-ID: <20070118082250.GE11056@tuxdriver.com> References: <20070116185524.GA5681@dmt> <20070117141103.0e468bf4@griffin.suse.cz> <1169046072.2750.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1169047134.9175.49.camel@johannes.berg> <1169055788.2550.44.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1169056847.2550.56.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070117230945.GB9387@infradead.org> <45AEAEEB.6050603@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Dan Williams , Johannes Berg , Jiri Benc , Marcelo Tosatti , netdev , "John W. Linville" , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Arnd Bergmann , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Return-path: Received: from ra.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.52]:2147 "EHLO ra.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752026AbXARJEs (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jan 2007 04:04:48 -0500 To: Jeff Garzik Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45AEAEEB.6050603@pobox.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 06:19:07PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 01:00:47PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > >>allows the 8388 to continue routing other laptops' packets over the mesh > >>*while the host CPU is asleep*. > > > >We're not going to put a lot of junk into the kernel just because the OLPC > >folks decide to do odd powermanagment schemes. > > We're not going to ignore useful power management schemes just because > they don't fit neatly into a pre-existing category. > > I think the request to determine how all this maps into MLME is fair, > though. Definitely. Also, I wonder if there was any attempt to evaluate how the ieee80211 (or d80211) code might be extended in order to elimnate the need for some of the libertas wlan_* files? John -- John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com